Hey Fam!
I hope everything has been going well with going back to school
and everything! I know that is a pretty busy time around the Reay home!!! This
week was pretty great! Princess, Fred, and a new investigator named Friday came
to church and we were soooooooo happy! Princess is progressing really well.
Right now, she is praying about when her baptism should be. I think she will
choose a date in late September or early August, but we will see! Right now,
her kids are out of school for summer so lessons are always interesting because
Sister Pitcher and I have to take turns keeping them occupied with coloring
while the other teaches Princess the lesson! Her kids are 7,5, and 2.
We have been teaching this other man named Issac for a LONG
time. He was always progressing enough that we continued teaching him, but our
main focus was usually on those who had a strong desire to baptize. I was so
happy because he kind of had a little change of heart experience that caused
him to ask us about commandments and why we should keep them. We got to teach
him about the Word of Wisdom and he went from 15 Cigarettes a day to 2 and this
week he agreed to try and cut them out completely! We are trying desperately to
help him come to church this Sunday because he is a refugee that lives about an
hour from the church.
I wanted to share something from my studies this week. I was
reading Alma 7:12 and it said, "And he will take upon him death, that he
may loose the bands of death which bind his people; and he will take upon him
their infirmities, that his bowels may be filled with mercy, according to the
flesh, that he may know according to the flesh how to succor his
people according to their infirmities." I read the institute manual about
the word ‘succor’ and it means "to run to". How cool is that? And in
German it is "Beistehen" which directly translates to "stand
by". Because he performed the atonement, he can run to our aid, stand by
us, and care for us.
I love you guys! Have a great week!
Love, JJ May
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